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Risks of Prescribing Psychiatric Drugs to Veterans

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I wrote this article because of continued inaction to inform veterans and all Americans of the risk profiles of the drugs theyā€™re prescribed.

Brain Stew: An Interview with Myself

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To this day not a single doctor, psychiatrist, psychologist, or any other professional has ever even suggested to me that psych meds could potentially be a contributing factor to violence or homicide.
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Gigantic Hoax on Danish National TV: ā€œPatients with an ADHD Diagnosis Die Five Years...

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Danish TV issues a correction after learning that this purported study doesn't exist.

Why Does a Parent Medicate a Child? An Interview with My Mother

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When Brooke Siem was 15 years old, her father died. Her mother, Dee Barbash, sought help for her daughter that led to a prescription for a psychiatric drug. In this interview, they look back on that fateful decision.
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Preventing Suicide Among Older Adults

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In an ideal world, the goal would be to have interconnected, trauma-informed, ā€œhelpingā€ communities to prevent suicide in older adults.

Study Finds Over 25% of Antidepressant Prescriptions Given to High-Risk, Long-Term Users

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A new article published in BMC Medicine finds that antidepressant use in two Scottish regions increased 27% between 2012 and 2019. The current work,...
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SAFE: Survivors And Families Empoweredā€”An Update

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We hope to combat the increasing reliance on force, too often used with the justification ā€œfor your own good.ā€
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The Aggressive Suppression of Spiritual Awakening

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As they handed her hospital pajamas, similar to the orange prison suits you see on TV, she suddenly understood how little these people could help.
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What Helped and What Hindered My Recovery from PSSD and Protracted Withdrawal from Antidepressants?

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To recover from protracted withdrawal, I did everything I could to survive the process and help my body and mind heal.

From Freud to Fanon: How Daniel Gaztambide is Redefining Psychoanalytic Practice

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In this interview, Daniel Gaztambide discusses how decolonial perspectives can transform psychoanalytic practice.
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Is Mental Health a Choiceā€”and Can Understanding Help Us Heal?

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Thereā€™s a pattern and a purpose to what the mind does. You canā€™t change it, you have to understand it.

Antidepressants Linked to Lasting Sexual Dysfunction, Study Finds

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New research highlights the challenges in quantifying the prevalence of Post-SSRI Sexual Dysfunction (PSSD), a condition that continues to affect patients long after they stop taking antidepressants.
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Right-Wing or Left-Wing: Who Really Owns the Critique of Over-Medicalisation?

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Left-wing critique has always challenged powerful vested interests that prefer not to be disturbed.

Go Where You Are Watered

It is now five years after I had the courage to take hold of my own destiny. To not let people make me feel like I was less-than due to a diagnosis.
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How to Be a Happy, Successful Incurable Schizophrenic

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If you are a young schizophrenic, I encourage you to accept the challenge of leading a happy, productive, meaningful life.

ADHD Drugs Linked to Psychosis and Mania

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In one analysis, those on a high dose of prescription amphetamines were more than 13 times more likely to develop psychosis/mania.

Faith Healing in India: An Ancient Way of Tending to Madness

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In contrast to the colonial legacy of medical psychiatry in India, indigenous and faith healing methods emphasize the interconnectedness of the mind, body, and spirit, using rituals, storytelling, and communal support to create a holistic healing environment.

On Not Becoming David Foster Wallace

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I didn't know Wallace was a poster boy for antidepressant withdrawal because I didn't know that antidepressant withdrawal was common, or that I would be experiencing it myself.
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The Long-Disputed Science of Twin Studies

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Twin studies and heritability estimates are used in support of biological determinism and in defense of the global inequality status quo.
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STAR*D: The Harms of Orchestrated Psychiatric Fraud

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STAR*Dā€™s results are too bitter a pill for psychiatric leaders to swallow, so they have chosen to become a rogue medical specialty.

Antidepressant Withdrawal: A Psychiatrist’s 30-Year Challenge to Conventional Wisdom

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For thirty years, Dr. Giovanni Fava has sounded the alarm on the long-term effects of antidepressants and the risks of withdrawal, pushing back against pharmaceutical narratives.
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Human Suffering as Numbers and Graphs: The Problem with Measuring Outcomes in Therapy

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Outcome monitoring is a product of bureaucratic healthcare: Human suffering reduced to efficiency optimization.

Antidepressant Withdrawal Commonly Misdiagnosed as ā€œMental Illnessā€

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A new study reveals that more than two-thirds of patients experiencing antidepressant withdrawal were misdiagnosed with psychiatric disorders.

MindFreedom’s Shield Program: Working to Free People from Psychiatric Incarceration and Forced Treatment

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ā€œWe need the MindFreedom Shield to have someone in our corner when we are told that it doesn't matter what we want, that someone else can make a choice about our bodies that we will have to live with for the rest of our lives.ā€